And the servers rejoiced

After a year of insane growth in both traffic and infrastructure, the demands of the site have given us the charge of growing the reddit admin team. To that end, I am extremely pleased to welcome Ricky Ramirez – aka rram – to the systems administration team.

Ricky will be joining in the unending mission of ensuring that reddit’s stability and speed continue to improve. He arrived only a week ago, and I’ve already successfully inundated him with a mountain of Cassandra and Akamai to-dos.

Previous to joining reddit, Ricky has honed his systems kung-foo at places such as Rackspace and The Tech. He is also working on obtaining his private pilot’s license, after-which he will be required to provide for our air transportation at any time.